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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JAMES E. DE GRUSH AND JOHN WBOATH, OF SANDYHILL, NEW YORK.

SIDE-BAR VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,499, dated May 11,1880.

Application filed March 2D, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES E. DE GRUSH and JOHN WROATH, of Sandy Hill,in the county of Washington and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvernents in Side-Bar Vehicles;and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and

1o to lthe letters of reference marked thereon,

whichV form part of this speciication.

The nature of our invention yrelates to the construction and arrangementot' a buckboardwagon, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, andpointed out in the claim.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which our inventionappertains to 'make and use the same, we will now proceed to describeits construction and operation, referring to the zo annexed drawings, inwhich- Figure l is aperspective view of our' device, and Fig. 2 is across-section.

A represents the front axle, with head-block B, and C is the rear axle.The head-block z5 B and rear axle, C, are connected by the two bars orboards D D, which form what is known as the buckboard7 E is theseat-frame above the boards D, said frame being supported upon posts or3o blocks da, extending upward from the side bars, F F. These side barsare connected by and supported upon sills G G, which pass under and aresecured to the boards D D. A

rough or smooth. without getting out of the wagon.

This device may be used with a wagon-bodyl on the buckboard, and it willspring as easy as it there were only a seat fastened to it.

The device is simple, cheap, and durable, and not liable to break or getout of order.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, isv In combination with thebuckboard D D and frame E, the cross-bars I I and the connecting andregulating screw J, substantially as and for the purposes herein setforth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we afx oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. DE GRUSH. JOHN WROATH. Witnesses:

BUREITT L. BUCK, ALBT. G. HAwKs.

